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 CROSBY STUART NOYES OYES, CROSBY STUART, veteran editor of "The Star," Washington's oldest established newspaper, is conspicuous among the men who "do things" at the National Capital. He has been both a newspaper-builder, and an active friend of all measures for building up the national capital. In Washington, noted as it is as the graveyard of newspaper enterprises, he has built up a successful and prosperous modern newspaper; and for nearly half a century he has been among the leaders in every wise plan for the development of the greater Washington.

Born in Maine, February 16, 1825, he came to Washington in 1847, and in 1853 became a reporter and a little later assistant editor of "The Star." During the war he won a reputation as a tactful, accurate newsgatherer of untiring energy and unfailing resources. In 1867 he acquired an interest in "The Star" and became its editor-in-chief.

From small beginnings he has developed "The Star" into a great modern newspaper, the special champion of local interests, a publication read by all classes of Washingtonians. He has done good service in nearly every branch of the newspaper work which as editor he is called upon to inspect, supervise and direct; and he thus brings to his editorial labors a ripe experience which is invaluable, and a thoughtful consideration of the rights and feelings of his subordinates which loyally attaches them to him and to the paper.

Mr. Noyes has labored effectively, both individually and through "The Star," at every stage of Washington's development during the last fifty years, and has been a potent factor in the upbuilding of the modern city. He ably and persistently assisted A. R. Shepherd to put into practical operation the projects of municipal improvement, about which the two men had dreamed and planned while fellow members of the local common council in 1863. He labored with Shepherd in the era of destruction, when the old municipal structure was with wise ruthlessness torn down. He was among the leaders in the era of reconstruction, beginning with the laying of deep,